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God's Property
(2010)
Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these ...
Velar fronting in German dialects
(2022)
Velar Fronting (VF) is the name for any synchronic or diachronic phonological process shifting the velar place of articulation to the palatal region of the vocal tract. A well-known case of VF in Standard German is the ...
Learning context effects
(2018-09-06)
This book deals with the effects of three different learning contexts mainly on adult, but also on adolescent, learners’ language acquisition. The three contexts brought together in the monograph include i) a conventional ...
Excavations at Chester. Roman Land Division and a Probable Villa in the Hinterland of Deva
(2023)
Excavations at Chester. Roman land division and a probable villa in the hinterland of Deva reports on excavations carried out by Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) at Saighton Camp – a former British Army training ...
Return of the Jew
(2013-02-15)
A new, “unexpected” generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish community in the world and then site of one of the biggest tragedies in Jewish ...
The Distinction of Peace
(2016-11-01)
“Peacebuilding” serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the ...
Management der sozialen Verantwortung im Krankenhaus
(2011)
Die der Krankenversorgung immanente Caritas ist ebenso keine Gegenkategorie zur Ökonomie, also zu einem wirtschaftlichen Handeln, wie auch das Management der sozialen Verantwortung nicht auf die Moderation (scheinbar) ...
Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
(2017-04-30)
Ute Holl explores cinema as a cultural technique of trance, unconsciously transforming everyday spatio-temporal perception. The archaeology of experimental and anthropological cinema leads into psycho-physiological ...
Antiklerikalismus in Europa
(2019)
Der Antiklerikalismus verfolgte im 19. Jahrhundert eine grundlegende Neuordnung des Verhältnisses von Staat, Gesellschaft, Kirchen und Religion. Lisa Dittrich erörtert erstmals anhand dreier Länder vergleichend die ...
Weltweit und virtuell - Praxisbeispiele aus dem digitalen Hochschulmarketing
(2016-07-27)
"The study presents examples of good practice in the use of digital tools for international university marketing. This includes websites, apps, social media, webinars, virtual fairs, digital learning and teaching formats ...
Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (Volume 22)
(2020)
This book represents the first attempt to query the contribution of women as cultural agents to the colonization, the anti-colonial opposition and the decolonization of territories ruled by Portugal in the African continent ...
Who Will Build the Ark?
(2024)
In Who Will Build the Ark? leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in key disputes between Green New Deal ...
The Cultural Life of James Bond
(2020)
The release of No Time To Die in 2020 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the transformation of Ian ...
Between Babylon and Jerusalem
(2020)
Simon Rawidowicz (1896–1957) was one of the most innovative, if also underappreciated, Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a partner in conversation with many of the leading Jewish cultural or political figures ...
Forces of Secularity in the Modern World
(2018)
Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the ...
Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished
(2008)
A masterful intersection of Bible studies, gender studies, and rabbinic law, Diane Kriger explores the laws pertaining to female slaves in Jewish law. Comparing biblical strictures with later rabbinic interpretations as ...
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
(2010)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater ...
Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights
(2016)
This book argues that Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill are the two primary architects of the modern theory of women’s rights as human rights. It only through addressing women’s rights, Botting argues, that the idea ...
Der Logos der Sophistik und die Philosophie
(2022)
Dieses Buch problematisiert "die Sophistik" als Gegenstand der Philosophiegeschichte und stellt die These auf, "die Sophistik" sei das Resultat einer philosophischen Operation. Anhand der kritischen Diskussion relevanter ...
Knights Across the Atlantic
(2017-01-27)
Knights Across the Atlantic tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, where they operated between 1883 and the end of the century. British and Irish Knights drew on the resources ...
Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus
(2018)
In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises ...
Muße und Erzählen
(2016)
Gibt es einen poetologischen Zusammenhang zwischen Muße und Erzählen? Thomas Klinkert untersucht dies anhand literarischer Texte in italienischer, französischer, spanischer und deutscher Sprache vom Mittelalter bis zur ...
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?
(2019-02-01)
The failure of a number of programmes and ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal forces have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book examines cultural responses to this instability. ...
The Unicode cookbook for linguists
(2018-07-11)
This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings ...
Reformatorische Paulusauslegungen
(2023)
Reformatorische Paulusauslegung wird in der gegenwärtigen Paulusforschung meist mit Martin Luthers Vorlesungen zum Galater- und zum Römerbrief gleichgesetzt. Sie dient als Gegenbild, von dem sich moderne Paulusexegese ...
Graz 1914
(2018)
Bernhard Thonhofer researched street life in Graz at the beginning of World War I 1914 and how the Burgfrieden was shaped subsequently. By that a transformation process from a fragmented militarized society in times of ...
Eugen-Fink-Symposion Freiburg 1985
(1987)
Zum 80. Geburtstag von Eugen Fink veranstalteten als Verwalter des Eugen-Fink-Archivs die Pädagogische Hochschule und das Staatliche Seminar für Schulpädagogik (Gymnasien), beide Freiburg, ein Symposion am 6. und 7.Dezember 1985.
Remains of the Social
(2017)
Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as ‘the post-apartheid social’. The volume grapples with apartheid as ...
Kommunale Strukturen im Spannungsfeld gesellschaftlicher Umwälzungen
(2018)
Die Jahre nach 1945 waren in der Mark Brandenburg eine Zeit des Aufbaus. Um aus der verwüsteten Provinz ein lebensfähiges Land zu schaffen, gab es große Herausforderungen zu bewältigen: Die Siegermächte hatten neue Grenzen ...
Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition
(2017-10-10)
Shows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle Ages
A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual ...
Daily Life for the Common People of China
(2018-10-28)
In this book Ronald Suleski introduces a new category of source material, ''chaoben'' 抄本, for understanding the lives of China’s semi-literate masses before 1950. It links the documents now flooding the antiques markets ...
Tweets and the Streets
(2012-10-20)
Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship ...
We Dream Together
(2016)
'In We Dream Together' Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. ...
Weiterentwicklung von Modellen betrieblichen Lerne ns
(2021)
In ihrer Dissertation beschäftigt sich Tanja Arnold mit einer Vielzahl von Modellen zum betrieblichen Lernen und berücksichtigt die Folgen, Auswirkungen und Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung. Da diese unzureichend sind, ...
Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare
(2018)
This book fills a gap in the historiographical and theoretical fields of race, gender, and war. In brief, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (RGMWW) offers an introduction into how cultural constructions of identity ...
Advances in Neural Signal Processing
(2020)
Neural signal processing is a specialized area of signal processing aimed at extracting information or decoding intent from neural signals recorded from the central or peripheral nervous system. This has significant ...
Fictions of African Dictatorship
(2017-04-30)
Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, ...
Ethno Music Gatherings
(2024)
This book presents key findings from a 4-year project that sought to understand Ethno Gatherings, an organized residential folk, world, and traditional music programme for young people aged 18-30. In response to three lines ...
Translation and Race
(2024)
Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice. This book explores the "unbearable whiteness of ...
Biological Relatives
(2013)
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological ...
Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film
(2012-12-06)
The notion of "self" and "other" and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept ...
Capitalism without Conscience
(2014-04-14)
Does austerity aim to reduce the deficits or is it but a pretext to move the state backwards, demolishing in the process what remains of social programs? It would now be a good time recall Keynes who concluded his «General ...
Die Bestattungsgruben in Bat
(2020)
Volume 1 of the series Arabia Orientalis presents the first comprehensive study of two Umm an-Nar (2700—2000 BC) burial pits from the UNESCO World Heritage site Bat in the Sultanate of Oman. They were excavated between ...
Roy and Zhores Medvedev
(2024)
The unique trajectory of Soviet dissident twin brothers Roy and Zhores Medvedev takes us through a century of history, from Stalin to Putin. They achieved fame as the first authors of independent research on Stalinism from ...
Second Chance
(2024)
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Institutions of Hanseatic Trade
(2016-11-30)
The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of ...
Children’s rights in crisis
(2024)
More than three decades have passed since the United Nations' adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, yet children's rights and dignity still confront profound challenges worldwide. This book delves ...
Two Lenins
(2017-11-01)
Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov ...
Benachteiligte Jugendliche in Ausbildung und Beruf individuell begleiten
(2019)
Die "Assistierte Ausbildung" (AsA) soll als ein Arbeitsmarktinstrument benachteiligten Jugendlichen den Weg in Berufsausbildung und Beruf erleichtern, ihre Chancen auf den Abschluss einer Berufsausbildung erhöhen und ...
Textiles in Motion
(2024)
An innovative series of case studies looking at the significance, meaning and social context of costume and textiles used in dance among a variety of ancient cultures and civilisations.Dress is at the core of dance. It ...
Persons and Their Minds
(2017)
Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the ...
The Witness as Object
(2018-04-30)
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the ...
Fencing in AIDS
(2020)
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In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic ...
The evolution of case grammar
(2016)
"There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so ...
Making Things Stick
(2016)
With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, ...
Drifting Apart of Transatlantic Security
(2021)
For the first time, this book examines the comparative impact of the Obama administration on the NATO and defense policies of European allies. Germany, Poland and Turkey serve as case studies to evaluate American policies ...
American Creoles
(2012-05-25)
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration ...
Utopian Discourses Across Cultures
(2016-07-06)
The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this polysemous notion and its ...
Geflüchtetenprotest und Gewerkschaften
(2020)
Seit 2012 gibt es in Deutschland eine neue Generation von selbstorganisiertem Geflüchtetenprotest mit einer zentralen Forderung: das Recht auf Arbeit und gewerkschaftliche Organisation. Die Interaktionen geflüchteter ...